A couple of interesting trends in the selector voting this year. First, we note that the selectors are getting seriously behind drop-in fuels, handing five of the top 6 slots to drop-in fuels developers.

One thing we note as a common thread – the selectors were rewarding progress in steel in the ground, product releases, project announcements. The selectors were a little less interested in visibility, and more focused on credibility, even if the announcements were coming from new companies just coming out of stealth mode.